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Will F1 to boot Windows be a problem?
BoCat:
Hello, Shane. I'm the guy whose old MSI-7058 took a header a few months back after running the full Tweaking program. After determining that I didn't have enough knowledge (yet) to find the problem(s), I acquired a Dell OptiPlex 745, (Service Tag F8XXBD1) 2GB/80GB with Ubuntu OS ( :evil:). After reformatting the drive (I bought a Windows 7 Home Premium), upgrading to 5GB/80Gb (soon to be 8GB), doing a clean install, updating BIOS/drivers/etc. I find that I have what seems to be a very solid and responsive machine. I want to run SimpleTweaking, mostly to ensure that I have missed nothing in set-up, and also because I was very impressed with the very noticeable upgrade in performance when done to my old MSI. Concern: When first started I have to either F1 to boot normally or F2 to enter set-up and cannot just walk away when doing restarts or other things that require a straight boot. There are a lot of people out there who have this glitch and everybody has a different answer. I have not been able to pin the corrective procedure down to make the machine boot right to Windows, YET. Want to know if this annoying problem will affect or cause problems with the Tweaking program or Windows when run.?. The old MSI is now a curiosity project and I'm probably going to do the same with it that I did with the Dell, but going to keep it in-house as the Home Premium was only licensed for one computer. :smiley: :confused:
Samson:
I saw this behaviour on a friend's OptiPlex.
Go into the BIOS, under "Security", in the "Chassis Intrusion" option, press the left- or right-arrow key to select "Reset", and then choose "Off", save and exit.
BoCat:
Thanks for the try, Samson. Followed the trail to Security, but had no listing for Chassis Intrusion or any reset function. Security listed: Administrative Password/System Password/Drive 0 Password/Drive 1 Password/Password Changes/TPM Security/Execute Disable/Computrace. Have watched a couple of video and they showed me exactly your instructions, but my 745 doesn't present as seen in video. Don't know the history of this machine, but it had an Ubuntu OS on it when I got it and I had a fine time getting to the point where I could get rid of it because the original owner couldn't remember any of the passwords. According to Dell this machine should have also had Windows in a separate partition, but did not. My BIOS is 2.6.4 and is current, as far as I know. :confused:
Samson:
Not all OptiPlexes had the Chassis Intrusion switches fitted, I guess that yours did n't have it fitted if it does n't show in the BIOS. :sad:
Is there any more info with the F1, F2 message? such as "Drive 0 not found" or "Diskette seek failure" ?
Does it Boot OK when using F1? If so is the date and time correct?
Samson:
--- Quote from: BoCat on July 18, 2015, 05:55:16 pm --- My BIOS is 2.6.4 and is current, as far as I know. :confused:
--- End quote ---
Looks like 2.6.6 is the latest. But no fixes mentioned in it :sad:
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=GRJ7T&fileId=2847999872&osCode=WW1&productCode=optiplex-745&languageCode=EN&categoryId=BI
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